[Trivial Psychic]

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Originally Posted by Spyne98

Yooooo! Awesome!
Also, what were you asking about? I must have missed the post.

Hey Spyne, what I was asking, was about a week ago, I chopped up and repainted my old Marvel Select Ultimate Venom figure in order to customize my current Brock Monster Venom, and while I satisfied with how it came out, it didn't come without a degree of guilt with it.

What I was asking folks here, was as Hasbro continues to fill out our collections with remakes that are supplanting our older versions, how do you feel about turning older figures into fodder parts? Not reselling...(because for some reason, I struggle less with that.) I'm talking about turning those figures into actual fodder. Accessories aside are one thing, as they can easily be swapped back and forth between figures (all of my current Hasbro Goblins are riding Toybiz gliders atm)...what I'm referring to is more permanent changes that often cannot be reversed, such as removing and dremeling headsculpts and body parts?

It's something that I struggle with personally, as I tend to not resell or dump off the older figures in my collection. We often have spent a great deal of money, time and resources collecting these things, so purposely breaking them or chopping them up, even if they are to make improvements to another figure, feels destructive and wasteful to me sometimes. There's something about keeping those original figures in their original state that appeals to me...as if I'm preserving history somehow because those older figures are a time capsule of sorts. I was just wondering if anyone out there has similar hangups?